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Nigel Weber

Software Engineer

Research & Efficacy Team

Nigel Weber is a part of the Research & Efficacy Team at Cisco Systems that assists in increasing the efficacy of the AMP for Endpoints and Cisco Threat Grid products, focusing mainly on customer reported malware for analysis.

Nigel joined Cisco shortly after graduating from the University of Calgary, where he majored in Computer Science with a specialization in information security.

Articles

January 23, 2019

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SECURITY

Suspicious Registry Keys and Requested files: A Threat Grid Case Study

Threat Grid’s detections and indicators are created by the Research and Efficacy Team, or RET. The RET’s primary objective is to improve the detection rate of Threat Grid. As such we have to keep up with new malware campaigns and exploitation techniques. This often requires manual analysis of sample…